Catherine's mission to dispel the myths about pole dancing ; Exeter...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  October 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......instructor Catherine Johns has no doubt that pole dancing exercise classes, which have surged...off any association with the kind of pole dancing performed in strip clubs. "A pole is...are trying to entertain ourselves." Pole dancing as a fitness activity is a mixture of...

Seedy image stripped away for fitness' sake; your Health In association...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  July 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......associated with seedy strip clubs but pole dancing is fast becoming a hobby for...girls from all walks of life. Pole dancing originated in the strip clubs...Many celebrities have taken up pole dancing, boosting its appeal to the public...

Sexy's back at pole dancing classes.(Health & Fitness)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  July 2, 2007 ;     666 words ......has something to do with the fact that pole dancing is a killer workout. Sure, it looks...explains Kristin Hubbard, 35, who teaches pole dancing at Tease Workout in Naperville. Irene...Franklin Park says she got interested in pole dancing after seeing it in a bunch of nightclubs...

Pole dancing student banned from holding workshop at college ; College...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  May 28, 2008 ;     492 words ......banned a city student from holding a pole dancing workshop on its campus. Kirstie Mills...was not an appropriate location for pole dancing. The 18-year-old, from Honiton, suffers...been in hospital so much since starting pole dancing and it has opened up other activities...

Pole-dancing entrepreneurs cashin on stripping's social acceptance

Daily Breeze;  January 28, 2005 ;     653 words ......Pole Katz but this is the same kind of pole dancing normally associated with places where...a medical practice manager, met in a pole dancing class. Both are athletes, gymnastic...that remained more or less unnoticed -- pole dancing. Both had been to strip clubs and, along...

Pole dancing for breakfast? Not everyone's cup of tea ... Let's face the...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 27, 2007 ;     385 words ......season. Instead, they had to endure a display of pole dancing - and all before 9am. The erotic dancers appeared...feature, she added hastily:'This is not naughty pole dancing. This is pole dancing for exercise. 'We did not concentrate on the...

The MAG: Pole axe the flab; POLE dancing is shaking off its sleazy image...

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  May 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ......I imagined the setting for my first pole-dancing lesson. So it was with some trepidation...Midlands to teach the general public pole dancing. T-shirts and leggings were more the...frightened first-timers at their ease. 'Pole dancing is about toning your body and getting...

Pole-dancing Queens'; Student starts club for erotic gyrators at...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 21, 2004 ;     455 words ......12 other students the finer points of pole dancing. The members of the so-called Fellowship...Whether all of the girls' parents believe pole dancing is a suitable way of relaxing between...20, remains defiant, insisting that pole dancing is no different from any other performing...

College bans student's pole-dancing ; A student with cystic fibrosis is...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 29, 2008 ;     210 words ......extolling the health benefits of pole dancing in college grounds. Kirstie Mills said she wanted to help banish pole dancing's "seedy" reputation through a...not an appropriate location for pole dancing. The 18-year-old, from Honiton...

Student pole dancing night to tour the nation

The Sunday Herald;  September 29, 2002 ;     585 words ......new student club night that combines a pole dancing competition with drinks promos glorifies...Idol was "a cheap shot to glamorise pole dancing, which is already seen as seedy". "If...dangerous. "Having a cash prize on offer for pole dancing in front of a large audience and plying...

Pole dancing for kids aged 11? Why one Welsh council thinks it's a 'fun...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 4, 2007 ;     520 words ......nights up and down the land. But now pole dancing is being offered to children as young...the latest form of exercise. Although pole dancing classes have become popular with adults...twirling around a pole, is headed, Try Pole Dancing - Women and under 16s . It reads, Something...

Strictly no pole dancing for the BBC.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 17, 2006 ;     177 words ......bbc has scrapped plans for a charity pole dancing programme after women students in Wales...July 15 show Comic Relief Strictly Come Pole Dancing. The BBC had lined up Zoe Ball to be...are not proceeding with Strictly Come Pole Dancing.' Katie Dalton, deputy welfare and equality...

GOING TO THE POLES; With housewives and film stars singing its praises as...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  September 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......but with plans for the country's first pole-dancing academy to be held in Glasgow, others...has become respectable at last. The pole dancing craze is sweeping the country after...Stringfellow's top dancers, is not surprised pole dancing is becoming more fashionable. Dawn...

New pole dance row on Barbican ; A pole dancing club has opened on...

Plymouth Evening Herald, The;  October 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ...A pole dancing club has opened on Plymouth's historic...them could now also be turned into pole-dancing clubs. One Plymouth licensee said...saying it wanted to open an upstairs pole dancing club. The licensing committee wanted...

Pole dancing game all set to hit Wii consoles

The Hindustan Times;  May 5, 2008 ;     233 words ......stretch your muscles in a more sexier way, i.e. pole dancing. Now, boffins are planning to develop a pole dancing game for the best-selling Wii console. While British-owned Peekaboo Pole Dancing is discussing the plans to develop the new game...